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Susan Eisenhower, the 34th president's granddaughter, told the panel her family wants the memorial to be redesigned.

A hearing in Congress could pressure memorial planners to make changes. But the panel does not have a direct role in approving the design.

Final approval of Gehry's concept from a commission that approves architecture in the nation's capital has been delayed amid ongoing objections from the family. The family wants the project to focus more on Ike's accomplishments and less on his rural Kansas roots.

I don't much like Mr. Gehry's work -- and the selection of a designer/architect for the memorial should be open to all (which is how we came to have something as iconic as the Vietnam Memorial). But trying to get a family, a country, a military, and a currently war weary general public to agree on what a memorial should look like is futile in a political landscape where we can't even get agreement on what reality is.